John Delcos enters his third season covering the Mets for The Journal News after eight seasons on the Yankees beat. Prior to coming to New York, John covered the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.

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Do you think they went about it wrong, he’s a veteran and should have been able to handle the news prior to the start. To pitch lights out and then suddenly be pulled, for a veteran thats embarrassing. I think Park will have a good year he strikes alot out and only pitched 11 innings last year after the A-S break. When El Duque goes down he should be a starter. Hopefully he isnt too disgruntled.

Maybe they should have told him, I don’t know. Park is talking like this is a surprise, but I don’t see it as such. If this were an either-or competition, then the loser would be gone, right? Well, it’s not that way. They are giving him a chance to stay in another capacity. That seems fair to me. And, isn’t being reliever on the major league level better than the minor leagues?

Milledge is not gettting the RF spot. Its Greens to lose. Green is a notorious slow starter in ST. He will do his usual .275 hiting during the regular season. I love how everyone is harping on Milledges 17 hits in spring training that he has gotten vs mostly minor league pitching. We saw milledge vs major league pitching hit .244 last year. Green will be the starting right fielder and theres 6 million reasons why.